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Game Preview: KCR @ STL, 7:15pm, Saturday, June 18, 2011 @Busch Stadium III

Royals, 31-39, 31-39 4th, 7 GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Vin Mazzaro (24, RHP, 1-1, 10.80)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (1-1) 18.1 30 22 22 13 7 3 10.80
2010 (6-8) 122.1 127 70 58 50 79 19 4.27
2009 (4-9) 91.1 120 61 54 39 59 12 5.32
Last 7 GS 1-4 36.2 42 28 24 22 18 8 5.89 41
2011-06-12 @LAA W 7.0 5 0 0 5 0 0 102 62
2011-06-07 TOR L 5.0 8 6 6 1 3 1 78 29
2011-05-11 @NYY ND 4.0 6 2 2 4 2 1 94 40
2010-09-05 LAA L 4.1 6 5 5 3 0 2 85 28
2010-08-31 @NYY L 3.2 7 9 7 3 3 3 102 15
2010-08-26 @CLE L 6.1 7 3 3 2 5 1 97 50
2010-08-20 TBR ND 6.1 3 3 1 4 5 0 105 60
Last 5 v.STL 0-0 5.0 6 4 4 3 5 1 7.20 41
2010-06-18 @STL ND 5.0 6 4 4 3 5 1 92 41
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   21-20   Road:   10-19   ExtrInn: 7-6 
 vsRHP:  24-28   vsLHP:   7-11   1-Run:  14-11
 vsEast:  6-7    vsCntrl: 9-16   vsWest: 14-14 IL: 2-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 70 Fri, Jun 17  @STL  W   5-4       31-39  4th  7.0 gb
 69 Thu, Jun 16  @OAK  L   4-8       30-39  4th  8.0 gb
 68 Wed, Jun 15  @OAK  L   1-2       30-38  4th  7.0 gb
 67 Tue, Jun 14  @OAK  W   7-4       30-37  4th  7.0 gb
 66 Sun, Jun 12  @LAA  W   9-0       29-37  4th  6.5 gb
 65 Sat, Jun 11  @LAA  L   5-7       28-37  4th  7.5 gb
 64 Fri, Jun 10  @LAA  W   4-2       28-36  4th  7.5 gb
 63 Thu, Jun  9   TOR  W   3-2       27-36  4th  8.5 gb
 62 Wed, Jun  8   TOR  L   8-9       26-36  4th  9.0 gb
 61 Tue, Jun  7   TOR  L   5-8       26-35  4th  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:11-19
Cardinals, 38-33, 38-33 2nd, 1 GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Jake Westbrook (33, RHP, 6-4, 5.16)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (6-4) 75.0 89 47 43 34 38 5 5.16
2010 (10-11) 202.2 203 99 95 68 128 20 4.22
2008 (1-2) 34.2 33 13 12 7 19 5 3.12
Last 7 GS 4-2 38.1 44 19 18 15 16 2 4.23 47
2011-06-12 @MIL L 5.0 8 4 4 1 0 1 78 34
2011-06-07 @HOU W 5.1 8 3 2 3 3 1 100 42
2011-06-01 SFG ND 5.2 9 3 3 2 4 0 100 41
2011-05-27 @COL W 5.0 5 3 3 2 4 0 93 47
2011-05-21 @KCR W 8.0 4 0 0 3 3 0 105 74
2011-05-16 PHI W 7.0 4 1 1 3 1 0 109 63
2011-05-11 @CHC L 2.1 6 5 5 1 1 0 57 25
Last 5 v.KCR 2-1 32.1 32 11 11 12 15 0 3.06 53
2011-05-21 @KCR W 8.0 4 0 0 3 3 0 105 74
2010-05-11 @KCR W 6.0 5 1 1 2 2 0 103 58
2007-09-29 @KCR ND 6.1 7 3 3 1 5 0 100 51
2007-07-13 KCR ND 6.0 5 3 3 5 2 0 94 47
2006-09-13 KCR L 6.0 11 4 4 1 3 0 94 36
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-13   Road:   20-20   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  29-23   vsLHP:   9-10   1-Run:  10-11
 vsEast:  8-7    vsCntrl:16-13   vsWest: 12-11 IL: 2-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 71 Fri, Jun 17   KCR  L   4-5       38-33  2nd  1.0 gb
 70 Thu, Jun 16  @WSN  L   4-7 (10)  38-32  2nd  1.0 gb
 69 Wed, Jun 15  @WSN  L   0-10      38-31  2nd  1.0 gb
 68 Tue, Jun 14  @WSN  L   6-8       38-30  1st    Tied
 67 Sun, Jun 12  @MIL  L   3-4       38-29  2nd  0.5 gb
 66 Sat, Jun 11  @MIL  L   3-5       38-28  1st  0.5 up
 65 Fri, Jun 10  @MIL  L   0-8       38-27  1st  1.5 up
 64 Thu, Jun  9  @HOU  W   9-2       38-26  1st  2.5 up
 63 Wed, Jun  8  @HOU  L   1-4       37-26  1st  1.5 up
 62 Tue, Jun  7  @HOU  W   7-4       37-25  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jun 17, 2011 KCR  5 @STL  4        W:Blake Wood (3-0), L: Chris Carpenter (1-7), S: Joakim Soria (11)
Sun, May 22, 2011 STL  9 @KCR  8 (10)   W:Jason Motte (2-1), L: Louis Coleman (0-1), S: Fernando Salas (7)
Sat, May 21, 2011 STL  3 @KCR  0        W:Jake Westbrook (4-3), L: Tim Collins (2-2), S: Fernando Salas (6)
Fri, May 20, 2011 KCR  3  STL  0        W:Jeff Francis (1-5), L: Chris Carpenter (1-4), S: Joakim Soria (7)

Sun, Jun 27, 2010 KCR 10  STL  3        W:Bruce Chen (4-2), L: Jaime Garcia (7-4), S: none
Sat, Jun 26, 2010 STL  5 @KCR  3        W:Blake Hawksworth (2-4), L: Kyle Davies (4-6), S: Ryan Franklin (15)
Fri, Jun 25, 2010 KCR  4  STL  2        W:Zack Greinke (3-8), L: Jeff Suppan (0-3), S: Joakim Soria (18)
Sun, Jun 21, 2009 STL 12 @KCR  5        W:Adam Wainwright (8-4), L: Gil Meche (4-6), S: none
Sat, Jun 20, 2009 STL  7 @KCR  1        W:Chris Carpenter (5-1), L: Brian Bannister (5-4), S: Ryan Franklin (17)
Fri, Jun 19, 2009 STL 10 @KCR  5        W:Brad Thompson (2-2), L: Kyle Davies (3-7), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - tied 2-2; 2010 - KCR won 2-1; 2009 - STL won 5-1; All-Time - STL leads 36-28

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

PA - Plate Appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI)
BF - Batters Faced
BA - Batting Average
OBP - On-Base Percentage
SLG - Slugging Percentage
Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days.
SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made
ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP
Total - Team totals for those categories.
Usage - See the note below the grid. 		OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so)
RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game.
PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers
Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed.
G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2011 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results
vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers
Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games.
OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists
vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters
vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters
HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed
MLB Best, Middle, Worst
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.32

CHW  4.10

SDP  3.35

 RA/G

PHI  3.31

CHW  4.30

CHC  5.04

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .352

M. Wieters  .268

D. Uggla  .172

 OBP

J. Bautista  .486

B. Zobrist  .339

D. Uggla  .240

 SLG

J. Bautista  .679

J. Willingham  .410

C. Figgins  .261

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.165

C. Pena  .747

C. Figgins  .506

 ERA

J. Beckett  1.86

J. Lester  3.73

J. Vazquez  6.85

 K/9IP

M. Garza  9.79

G. Floyd  6.67

C. Pavano  3.63

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Royals Batters (4.49 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.41 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Westbrook
G/S/vB		 44.Batista
G/S/vB		 41.Boggs
G/S/vB		 31.Franklin
G/S/vB		 43.Miller*
G/S/vB		 30.Motte
G/S/vB		 59.Salas
G/S/vB		 56.Tallet*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Betemit# G/S/vP ··· 10/.967 ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 205/156 .288/.346/.413/.759 .552/.826 .854 65/.632 3/1 2/5
16.Butler G/S/vP 9/.583 8/.775 2/.000 3/.000 1/.000 4/.000 1/3.000 3/4.333 295/227 .300/.403/.440/.843 .980/.805 .787 108/.924 1/1 6/0
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 17/.412 2/2.000 2/1.500 1/.000 5/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 17/.259 317/219 .280/.322/.444/.765 .637/.823 .847 117/.798 9/2 9/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 6/.000 2/1.000 5/.400 1/.000 1/2.000 4/.500 1/.000 1/.000 269/203 .246/.279/.294/.573 .629/.555 .681 97/.646 11/4 0/6
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 7/.143 11/.382 1/.000 12/1.017 4/1.250 3/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 293/223 .267/.311/.447/.758 .988/.684 .680 105/.600 9/0 9/2
17.Getz* G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 229/177 .245/.315/.291/.606 .589/.611 .617 80/.635 9/2 0/4
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 9/.777 3/1.334 3/.333 ··· 5/.200 ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 310/214 .281/.346/.450/.796 .770/.808 .650 114/.819 5/4 7/1
12.Maier* G/S/vP 3/.333 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 45/28 .333/.467/.472/.939 .769/1.045 .929 25/.869 1/0 0/0
27.Pena# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 113/80 .250/.310/.400/.710 .733/.700 .813 41/.930 0/0 3/2
15.Treanor G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 161/129 .213/.363/.291/.654 .740/.634 .544 60/.546 1/1 2/3
IP 75.0 28.1 24.2 25.1 13.1 28.1 31.0 11.1 TOTAL .262/.329/.393/.722 .718/.724 .708 .715 70/18 51/42
ERA-K/9 5.16/4.6 3.81/5.1 2.92/8.4 8.17/5.7 2.70/4.7 2.22/8.3 2.61/9.6 7.15/6.4 3.95/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (23-14-2)
 Treanor (29-12-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 336/.302 132/.239 99/.222 122/.367 61/.250 116/.218 126/.202 55/.327 .260  Francoeur
 Gordon
 Cabrera
 Maier
0/0/67/7
64/0/0/7
7/62/2/6
4/3/5/0
OPS .798 .738 .631 1.077 .762 .603 .570 1.023 .718
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 160/.719 41/1.021 33/.795 46/.928 41/.614 38/.743 56/.664 21/1.018 .717
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 176/.869 91/.613 66/.553 76/1.173 20/1.088 78/.535 70/.496 34/1.027 .719
Home 144/.724 49/.602 38/.786 36/.790 24/.698 50/.652 56/.382 17/.489
Last 28d days 98/.880 53/.699 19/.498 49/1.005 28/.748 43/.454 52/.752 34/1.238
HR/SB/CS 5/6/3 2/2/0 2/1/1 7/0/0 0/0/0 0/1/1 1/2/0 4/1/0 58/28/13
Usage ·····X·· ···X···· ·X·o··X· ··X····X o··o···· ···X·o·· ·X···X·· ··X····X
Cardinals Batters (4.76 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.99 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.Mazzaro
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 59.Paulino
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 38.Wood
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
12.Berkman# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.667 2/2.000 2/.000 249/192 .310/.426/.611/1.037 .851/1.095 .975 93/.870 0/3 17/3
33.Descalso* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 1/no AB 1/.000 197/161 .241/.298/.356/.655 .267/.737 .635 74/.724 2/1 1/2
27.Greene G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 117/70 .198/.308/.267/.575 .615/.548 .433 41/.515 8/0 1/5
38.Hamilton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 27/20 .115/.148/.154/.302 .286/.308 .500 11/.000 0/0 0/0
7.Holliday G/S/vP 3/3.000 ··· 3/1.167 1/2.000 2/2.500 189/144 .348/.444/.559/1.003 1.197/.947 .878 19/.888 0/1 7/1
15.Jay* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/.666 3/.666 1/.000 179/140 .313/.364/.436/.799 .739/.814 .688 96/.769 5/2 4/1
4.Molina G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/no AB 235/177 .302/.352/.443/.795 .817/.788 .829 81/.744 1/4 4/3
5.Pujols G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/.000 3/.333 3/.000 1/.000 311/243 .271/.350/.484/.834 .705/.869 .935 106/.992 5/0 16/9
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/no AB ··· 1/no AB 2/2.500 285/206 .257/.347/.414/.761 .776/.755 .752 94/.649 5/1 5/1
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 4/.250 3/.000 ··· 128/110 .225/.273/.300/.573 .646/.562 .521 69/.489 0/1 1/0
3.Theriot G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/.375 ··· ··· 267/200 .296/.347/.358/.705 .794/.676 .671 89/.735 4/3 1/13
IP 18.1 14.1 41.2 31.0 29.2 TOTAL .270/.344/.413/.756 .727/.766 .718 .711 35/17 63/47
ERA-K/9 10.80/3.4 0.63/11.3 4.10/7.6 4.65/7.5 2.43/7.6 4.58/5.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Molina (23-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 92/.400 56/.157 179/.270 136/.250 118/.204 .269  Rasmus
 Jay
 Berkman
 Holliday
 Greene
 Schumaker
 Hamilton
0/66/0/4
13/10/38/2
10/0/48/1
40/0/0/1
1/0/8/0
0/0/5/0
2/0/0/0
OPS 1.102 .409 .712 .715 .587 .772
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 47/1.410 22/.483 73/.659 67/.588 53/.535 .802
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 45/.825 34/.362 106/.748 69/.833 65/.628 .749
Road 47/.852 23/.399 105/.723 39/.971 47/.726
Last 28d days 51/.896 52/.441 111/.512 61/.799 42/.375
HR/SB/CS 3/4/1 0/0/0 3/5/0 4/0/1 3/3/3 78/52/26
Usage ·····X·· ···X···X X·····X· X··X···o X····X··

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.